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Find here some resources you'll need to start your SSI journey... or survive through it ! Feel free to contribute if you've got resources of your own.
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USTHB SSI Resources

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Table of Matters

📌 Technical Sheet

All the technical information you need to know about the masters will be found in this technical sheet.

📌 Links

📌 CTF Websites

Beginner Friendly

Other

📌 Books

Big thanks to Shellmates for this incredible collection of books !

Archive containing 20 No Starch Press books (Size: ~200mb)

No Starch Press is the best publisher when it comes to cybersecurity books (and computer science in general)

Cryptography

Binary Exploitation/Pwn

Penetration Testing/Red Teaming:

Information Security (non-technical)

Reverse Engineering/Malware Analysis

Web Application Security

Android

Social Engineering

Lock Picking

Safe Cracking

Programming/Scripting for Offensive Security

IoT Hacking

Hardware Hacking

Programming (Python)

📌 Certifications

Beginner :

  1. CompTIA - IT Fundamentals.
  2. CompTIA – A+
  3. Cisco - CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate).
  4. CompTIA - Security+
  5. CompTIA - Server+
  6. CompTIA - Network+

Medium :

  1. EC-Council - CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker).
  2. EC-Council - CHFI (Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator).
  3. GIAC - GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler).
  4. GIAC - GSEC (GIAC Security Essentials).
  5. GIAC - GISP (GIAC Information Security Professional).
  6. Microsoft – MCSA Windows Server 2021 (Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate)

Advanced :

  1. CSA - CCSK (Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge).
  2. Cisco – CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional).
  3. Cisco – CCDP (Cisco Certified Design Professional).
  4. CompTIA - CySA+ (Cybersecurity Analyst).
  5. ISACA - CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor).
  6. (ISC)² - CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional).
  7. Microsoft - MCSE Server Infrastructure (Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert).
  8. GIAC - GSLC (GIAC Security Leadership Certification).

Expert:

  1. Cisco - CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert).
  2. Cisco – 600-199 SCYBER (Securing Cisco Networks with Threat Detection and Analysis).
  3. CompTIA - CASP (Advanced Security Practitioner).
  4. ISACA - CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT).
  5. ISACA - CISM (Certified Information Security Manager).
  6. (ISC)² - CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional).
  7. Mile2 - CPTE (Certified Penetration Testing Engineer)

📌 TryHackMe Walkthrough

A friend of mine showed me this walkthrough on https://tryhackme.com/resources/blog/free_path, thanks $p54B$ for drawing my attention toward it !

🦚 Level 1 - Intro

🦚 Level 2 - Tooling

🦚 Level 3 - Crypto & Hashes with CTF practice

🦚 Level 4 - Web

🦚 Level 5 - Reverse Engineering

🦚 Level 6 - PrivEsc

🦚 Level 7 - CTF practice

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